Chevrolet Volt Tires

Using SimpleScore, here are the best Chevrolet Volt tires on the market today.

1. Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus - Best All-Season tire

We’re going to get things going with the Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus. For decades, Pirelli tires have been synonymous with performance. They’re a favorite of drivers everywhere, thanks to their great balance of engineering, quality, and value. The P4 Persist AS Plus does a great job of living up to the Pirelli heritage. It’s a tire you can depend on for versatile year-round traction along with the long wear, supple ride, responsive handling, and low noise that you’d expect of a Grand Touring tire. Low rolling resistance is a design quality of the Pirelli P4 Persist AS Plus, saving on fuel costs over the life of the tire. Highway stability, handling, and tread wear are all boosted by the reinforced shoulders, designed for the rigidity that a performance-oriented tire needs to handle the hard G forces of cornering. The P4 Persist AS Plus’s wet-weather performance comes from circumferential grooves that channel water away from the tire’s contact patch to avoid hydroplaning, and its angled lateral grooves work to enhance mechanical grip on wet or dry pavement. The solid center rib in the middle of the P4 Persist AS Plus’s tread is designed for great road manners, steering response and on-center stability on the highway. Tread life is a strong point with the P4 Persist AS Plus – Pirelli backs this tire with an 85,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty. That all comes out to SimpleScores of 9.7 for traction, 9.9 for longevity, 9.5 for handling and an overall average SimpleScore of 9.7.

2. Bridgestone WeatherPeak - Best All-Weather tire

Next up we’ve got a great all-weather option for your Chevrolet Volt, the Bridgestone WeatherPeak. If the “all-weather” classification is a new term for you, all-weather tires are designed for performance similar to all-season tires, but with more focus on winter traction, for the kind of snow, slush, and ice where you can’t rely on all-season tires to get the job done for you. To that end, Bridgestone designed the Weatherpeak’s tread with a dense pattern of sipes, the hair-thin slits that chew through snow and slush with hundreds of extra biting edges to give you the edge in traction that you need. Bridgestone’s sipes are a full-depth 3D design that keep delivering winter traction as the tire wears down, along with “snow vices” that actually develop snow-to-snow friction by retaining snow in the tread. The Bridgestone WeatherPeak has the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake rating stamped on its sidewall for severe winter service; testing indicates that braking distances are as much as 30 feet shorter than the competition in winter weather. Taking everything into account, we gave the Bridgestone WeatherPeak a SimpleScore of 9.7 for traction. The WeatherPeak’s SimpleScore of 9.5 for handling is thanks to its rubber formulation and tread features that highlight top notch road manners, steering response, and cornering ability. Bridgestone backs the WeatherPeak with a 70,000 mile limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty, a best-in-class warranty that’s enough to inspire a SimpleScore of 9.8 for longevity.

3. Goodyear Winter Command Ultra - Best Winter tire

Our pick for best winter tire is the Winter Command Ultra from Goodyear. Not surprisingly, this tire is Three Peak Mountain Snowflake rated for traction in severe winter conditions. That’s thanks to Goodyear’s Cryo-Adaptive tread compound that stays flexible in subfreezing weather and a directional V-tread pattern with hydro dynamic grooves that do a great job of channeling water and slush away from the tire’s contact patch to resist hydroplaning. Though the Winter Command Ultra is a studless winter tire, we give it a hard-to-beat SimpleScore of 9.9 for traction. Durability is another strong point for this tire, even though (like most winter tires) it doesn’t come with a factory mileage warranty – we give it a SimpleScore of 8.5 for longevity. Goodyear designed the Winter Command Ultra around the idea that a winter tire doesn’t have to be sluggish, unresponsive, and clumsy. The Winter Command Ultra’s steering response and cornering are immediate and sharp, and its ride quality is on par with the best all-season tires. We give the Winter Command Ultra a SimpleScore of 9.5 for handling.

While these are the best Chevrolet Volt tires on the market, there are plenty of other options to consider:

4. Firestone WeatherGrip - Great All-Weather tire

Here’s another Three Peak Mountain Snowflake certified tire in the all-weather category: the WeatherGrip from Firestone. Firestone packed this tire with traction-boosting features like their Hydro-Grip Technology Package that includes a fat, rounded contact patch, chamfered shoulder blocks, full-depth grooves and open shoulder slots. Winter traction comes from Firestone’s Snow Traction Claw Technology that consists of snow vices on the intermediate ribs, high-density zigzag sipes, and interlocking grooves; we give this tire a SimpleScore of 8.6 for traction. The WeatherGrip’s internal construction includes a single-ply nylon casing capped by a steel belt package and nylon reinforcement layer. The Firestone WeatherGrip is covered by a 65,000 mile warranty, and we give it a SimpleScore of 9.2 in the longevity category. Braking performance, cornering and steering response are all stable, neutral and predictable, for a SimpleScore of 8.5 for handling.

5. Toyo Extensa A/S II - Great All-Season tire

We’re going to wrap this up with the Toyo Extensa A/S II, a tire that we’ve always considered to be a great value in an all-season tire. The engineers at Toyo started off with a silica-rich tread compound that’s designed for long wear and enhanced wet-weather grip, formed into an all-season tread design with a system of circumferential grooves, lateral/angled grooves and 3D sipes for the dependable year-round traction you need. After running the numbers, we give the Toyo Extensa A/S II a SimpleScore of 8.7 for traction. Durability is also a strong point with this tire, thanks to robust internal construction consisting of a polyester casing, two steel belts and a spiral-wound nylon cap layer and a long-wearing tread compound. Cross-rotating the Extensa A/S II is easy with its symmetrical tread pattern, and Toyo backs this tire with a 75,000 mile warranty for a longevity SimpleScore of 7.8. We’ve also noted the cornering, steering response, and roadability with the Extensa A/S II; that symmetric tread pattern and shoulder design mean more rubber in contact with the road, for a SimpleScore of a solid 8.4 for handling.

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